2018-05-02 Released 10.1.0
Fixes changing previous behaviour:
Fixes:
- Add a caption_entity filter for filtering caption entities (#1068)
- Inputfile encode filenames (#1086)
- InputFile: Fix proper naming of file when reading from subprocess.PIPE (#1079)
- Remove pytest-catchlog from requirements (#1099)
- Documentation fixes (#1061, #1078, #1081, #1096)
2018-04-17 Released 10.0.2
Important fix:
- Handle utf8 decoding errors (#1076)
New features:
- Added Filter.regex (#1028)
- Filters for Category and file types (#1046)
- Added video note filter (#1067)
Fixes:
- Fix in telegram.Message (#1042)
- Make chat_id a positional argument inside shortcut methods of Chat and User classes (#1050)
- Make Bot.full_name return a unicode object. (#1063)
- CommandHandler faster check (#1074)
- Correct documentation of Dispatcher.add_handler (#1071)
- Various small fixes to documentation.
2018-03-05 Released 10.0.1
Fixes:
2018-03-02 Released 10.0.0
Non backward compatabile changes and changed defaults
- JobQueue: Remove deprecated prevent_autostart & put() (PR #1012)
- Bot, Updater: Remove deprecated network_delay (PR #1012)
- Remove deprecated Message.new_chat_member (PR #1012)
- Retry bootstrap phase indefinitely (by default) on network errors (PR #1018)
New Features
- Support v3.6 API (PR #1006)
- User.full_name convinience property (PR #949)
- Add send_phone_number_to_provider and send_email_to_provider arguments to send_invoice (PR #986)
- Bot: Add shortcut methods reply_{markdown,html} (PR #827)
- Bot: Add shortcut method reply_media_group (PR #994)
- Added utils.helpers.effective_message_type (PR #826)
- Bot.get_file now allows passing a file in addition to file_id (PR #963)
- Add .get_file() to Audio, Document, PhotoSize, Sticker, Video, VideoNote and Voice (PR #963)
- Add .send_*() methods to User and Chat (PR #963)
- Get jobs by name (PR #1011)
- Add Message caption html/markdown methods (PR #1013)
- File.download_as_bytearray - new method to get a d/led file as bytearray (PR #1019)
- File.download(): Now returns a meaningful return value (PR #1019)
- Added conversation timeout in ConversationHandler (PR #895)
Changes
- Store bot in PreCheckoutQuery (PR #953)
- Updater: Issue INFO log upon received signal (PR #951)
- JobQueue: Thread safety fixes (PR #977)
- WebhookHandler: Fix exception thrown during error handling (PR #985)
- Explicitly check update.effective_chat in ConversationHandler.check_update (PR #959)
- Updater: Better handling of timeouts during get_updates (PR #1007)
- Remove unnecessary to_dict() (PR #834)
- CommandHandler - ignore strings in entities and "/" followed by whitespace (PR #1020)
- Documentation & style fixes (PR #942, PR #956, PR #962, PR #980, PR #983)
2017-12-08 Released 9.0.0
Breaking changes (possibly)
- Drop support for python 3.3 (PR #930)
New Features
- Support Bot API 3.5 (PR #920)
Changes
- Fix race condition in dispatcher start/stop (#887)
- Log error trace if there is no error handler registered (#694)
- Update examples with consistent string formatting (#870)
- Various changes and improvements to the docs.
2017-10-15 Released 8.1.1
- Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR #873).
2017-10-14 Released 8.1.0
New features - Support Bot API 3.4 (PR #865).
Changes - MessageHandler & RegexHandler now consider channel_updates. - Fix command not recognized if it is directly followed by a newline (PR #869). - Removed Bot._message_wrapper (PR #822). - Unitests are now also running on AppVeyor (Windows VM). - Various unitest improvements. - Documentation fixes.
2017-09-01 Released 8.0.0
New features
- Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR #806).
- DispatcherHandlerStop (see docs).
- Regression fix for text_html & text_markdown (PR #777).
- Added effective_attachment to message (PR #766).
Non backward compatible changes
- Removed Botan support from the library (PR #776).
- Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR #806).
- Remove de_json() (PR #789).
Changes
- Sane defaults for tcp socket options on linux (PR #754).
- Add RESTRICTED as constant to ChatMember (PR #761).
- Add rich comparison to CallbackQuery (PR #764).
- Fix get_game_high_scores (PR #771).
- Warn on small con_pool_size during custom initalization of Updater (PR #793).
- Catch exceptions in error handlerfor errors that happen during polling (PR #810).
- For testing we switched to pytest (PR #788).
- Lots of small improvements to our tests and documentation.
2017-07-28 Released 7.0.1
- Fix TypeError exception in RegexHandler (PR #751).
- Small documentation fix (PR #749).
2017-07-25 Released 7.0.0
- Fully support Bot API 3.2.
- New filters for handling messages from specific chat/user id (PR #677).
- Add the possibility to add objects as arguments to send_* methods (PR #742).
- Fixed download of URLs with UTF-8 chars in path (PR #688).
- Fixed URL parsing for
Message
text properties (PR #689). - Fixed args dispatching in
MessageQueue
's decorator (PR #705). - Fixed regression preventing IPv6 only hosts from connnecting to Telegram servers (Issue #720).
- ConvesationHandler - check if a user exist before using it (PR #699).
- Removed deprecated
telegram.Emoji
. - Removed deprecated
Botan
import fromutils
(Botan
is still available throughcontrib
). - Removed deprecated
ReplyKeyboardHide
. - Removed deprecated
edit_message
argument ofbot.set_game_score
. - Internal restructure of files.
- Improved documentation.
- Improved unitests.
2017-06-18
Released 6.1.0
- Fully support Bot API 3.0
- Add more fine-grained filters for status updates
- Bug fixes and other improvements
2017-05-29
Released 6.0.3
- Faulty PyPI release
2017-05-29
Released 6.0.2
- Avoid confusion with user's
urllib3
by renaming vendoredurllib3
toptb_urllib3
2017-05-19
Released 6.0.1
- Add support for
User.language_code
- Fix
Message.text_html
andMessage.text_markdown
for messages with emoji
2017-05-19
Released 6.0.0
- Add support for Bot API 2.3.1
- Add support for
deleteMessage
API method - New, simpler API for
JobQueue
- python-telegram-bot#484 - Download files into file-like objects - python-telegram-bot#459
- Use vendor
urllib3
to address issues with timeouts - The default timeout for messages is now 5 seconds. For sending media, the default timeout is now 20 seconds. - String attributes that are not set are now
None
by default, instead of empty strings - Add
text_markdown
andtext_html
properties toMessage
- python-telegram-bot#507 - Add support for Socks5 proxy - python-telegram-bot#518
- Add support for filters in
CommandHandler
- python-telegram-bot#536 - Add the ability to invert (not) filters - python-telegram-bot#552
- Add
Filters.group
andFilters.private
- Compatibility with GAE via
urllib3.contrib
package - python-telegram-bot#583 - Add equality rich comparision operators to telegram objects - python-telegram-bot#604
- Several bugfixes and other improvements
- Remove some deprecated code
2017-04-17
Released 5.3.1
- Hotfix release due to bug introduced by urllib3 version 1.21
2016-12-11
Released 5.3
- Implement API changes of November 21st (Bot API 2.3)
JobQueue
now supportsdatetime.timedelta
in addition to secondsJobQueue
now supports running jobs only on certain days- New
Filters.reply
filter - Bugfix for
Message.edit_reply_markup
- Other bugfixes
2016-10-25
Released 5.2
- Implement API changes of October 3rd (games update)
- Add
Message.edit_*
methods - Filters for the
MessageHandler
can now be combined using bitwise operators (& and |
) - Add a way to save user- and chat-related data temporarily
- Other bugfixes and improvements
2016-09-24
Released 5.1
- Drop Python 2.6 support
- Deprecate
telegram.Emoji
- Use
ujson
if available - Add instance methods to
Message
,Chat
,User
,InlineQuery
andCallbackQuery
- RegEx filtering for
CallbackQueryHandler
andInlineQueryHandler
- New
MessageHandler
filters:forwarded
andentity
- Add
Message.get_entity
to correctly handle UTF-16 codepoints andMessageEntity
offsets - Fix bug in
ConversationHandler
when first handler ends the conversation - Allow multiple
Dispatcher
instances - Add
ChatMigrated
Exception - Properly split and handle arguments in
CommandHandler
2016-07-15
Released 5.0
- Rework
JobQueue
- Introduce
ConversationHandler
- Introduce
telegram.constants
- python-telegram-bot#342
2016-07-12
Released 4.3.4
- Fix proxy support with
urllib3
when proxy requires auth
2016-07-08
Released 4.3.3
- Fix proxy support with
urllib3
2016-07-04
Released 4.3.2
- Fix: Use
timeout
parameter in all API methods
2016-06-29
Released 4.3.1
- Update wrong requirement:
urllib3>=1.10
2016-06-28
Released 4.3
- Use
urllib3.PoolManager
for connection re-use - Rewrite
run_async
decorator to re-use threads - New requirements:
urllib3
andcertifi
2016-06-10
Released 4.2.1
- Fix
CallbackQuery.to_dict()
bug (thanks to @jlmadurga) - Fix
editMessageText
exception when receiving aCallbackQuery
2016-05-28
Released 4.2
- Implement Bot API 2.1
- Move
botan
module totelegram.contrib
- New exception type:
BadRequest
2016-05-22
Released 4.1.2
- Fix
MessageEntity
decoding with Bot API 2.1 changes
2016-05-16
Released 4.1.1
- Fix deprecation warning in
Dispatcher
2016-05-15
Released 4.1
- Implement API changes from May 6, 2016
- Fix bug when
start_polling
withclean=True
- Methods now have snake_case equivalent, for example
telegram.Bot.send_message
is the same astelegram.Bot.sendMessage
2016-05-01
Released 4.0.3
- Add missing attribute
location
toInlineQuery
2016-04-29
Released 4.0.2
- Bugfixes
KeyboardReplyMarkup
now acceptsstr
again
2016-04-27
Released 4.0.1
- Implement Bot API 2.0
- Almost complete recode of
Dispatcher
- Please read the Transition Guide to 4.0
- Changes from 4.0rc1
- The syntax of filters for
MessageHandler
(upper/lower cases) - Handler groups are now identified by
int
only, and ordered
- The syntax of filters for
- Note: v4.0 has been skipped due to a PyPI accident
2016-04-22
Released 4.0rc1
- Implement Bot API 2.0
- Almost complete recode of
Dispatcher
- Please read the Transistion Guide to 4.0
2016-03-22
Released 3.4
- Move
Updater
,Dispatcher
andJobQueue
to newtelegram.ext
submodule (thanks to @rahiel) - Add
disable_notification
parameter (thanks to @aidarbiktimirov) - Fix bug where commands sent by Telegram Web would not be recognized (thanks to @shelomentsevd)
- Add option to skip old updates on bot startup
- Send files from
BufferedReader
2016-02-28
Released 3.3
- Inline bots
- Send any file by URL
- Specialized exceptions:
Unauthorized
,InvalidToken
,NetworkError
andTimedOut
- Integration for botan.io (thanks to @ollmer)
- HTML Parsemode (thanks to @jlmadurga)
- Bugfixes and under-the-hood improvements
Very special thanks to Noam Meltzer (@tsnoam) for all of his work!
2016-01-09
Released 3.3b1
- Implement inline bots (beta)
2016-01-05
Released 3.2.0
- Introducing
JobQueue
(original author: @franciscod) - Streamlining all exceptions to
TelegramError
(Special thanks to @tsnoam) - Proper locking of
Updater
andDispatcher
start
andstop
methods - Small bugfixes
2015-12-29
Released 3.1.2
- Fix custom path for file downloads
- Don't stop the dispatcher thread on uncaught errors in handlers
2015-12-21
Released 3.1.1
- Fix a bug where asynchronous handlers could not have additional arguments
- Add
groups
andgroupdict
as additional arguments for regex-based handlers
2015-12-16
Released 3.1.0
- The
chat
-field inMessage
is now of typeChat
. (API update Oct 8 2015) Message
now contains the optional fieldssupergroup_chat_created
,migrate_to_chat_id
,migrate_from_chat_id
andchannel_chat_created
. (API update Nov 2015)
2015-12-08
Released 3.0.0
- Introducing the
Updater
andDispatcher
classes
2015-11-11
Released 2.9.2
- Error handling on request timeouts has been improved
2015-11-10
Released 2.9.1
- Add parameter
network_delay
to Bot.getUpdates for slow connections
2015-11-10
Released 2.9
- Emoji class now uses
bytes_to_native_str
fromfuture
3rd party lib - Make
user_from
optional to work with channels - Raise exception if Telegram times out on long-polling
Special thanks to @jh0ker for all hard work
2015-10-08
Released 2.8.7
- Type as optional for
GroupChat
class
2015-10-08
Released 2.8.6
- Adds type to
User
andGroupChat
classes (pre-release Telegram feature)
2015-09-24
Released 2.8.5
- Handles HTTP Bad Gateway (503) errors on request
- Fixes regression on
Audio
andDocument
for unicode fields
2015-09-20
Released 2.8.4
getFile
andFile.download
is now fully supported
2015-09-10
Released 2.8.3
- Moved
Bot._requestURL
to its own class (telegram.utils.request
) - Much better, such wow, Telegram Objects tests
- Add consistency for
str
properties on Telegram Objects - Better design to test if
chat_id
is invalid - Add ability to set custom filename on
Bot.sendDocument(..,filename='')
- Fix Sticker as
InputFile
- Send JSON requests over urlencoded post data
- Markdown support for
Bot.sendMessage(..., parse_mode=ParseMode.MARKDOWN)
- Refactor of
TelegramError
class (no more handlingIOError
orURLError
)
2015-09-05
Released 2.8.2
- Fix regression on Telegram ReplyMarkup
- Add certificate to
is_inputfile
method
2015-09-05
Released 2.8.1
- Fix regression on Telegram objects with thumb properties
2015-09-04
Released 2.8
- TelegramError when
chat_id
is empty for send* methods setWebhook
now supports sending self-signed certificate- Huge redesign of existing Telegram classes
- Added support for PyPy
- Added docstring for existing classes
2015-08-19
Released 2.7.1
- Fixed JSON serialization for
message
2015-08-17
Released 2.7
- Added support for
Voice
object andsendVoice
method - Due backward compatibility performer or/and title will be required for
sendAudio
- Fixed JSON serialization when forwarded message
2015-08-15
Released 2.6.1
- Fixed parsing image header issue on < Python 2.7.3
2015-08-14
Released 2.6.0
- Depreciation of
require_authentication
andclearCredentials
methods - Giving
AUTHORS
the proper credits for their contribution for this project Message.date
andMessage.forward_date
are nowdatetime
objects
2015-08-12
Released 2.5.3
telegram.Bot
now supports to be unpickled
2015-08-11
Released 2.5.2
- New changes from Telegram Bot API have been applied
telegram.Bot
now supports to be pickled- Return empty
str
insteadNone
whenmessage.text
is empty
2015-08-10
Released 2.5.1
- Moved from GPLv2 to LGPLv3
2015-08-09
Released 2.5
- Fixes logging calls in API
2015-08-08
Released 2.4
- Fixes
Emoji
class for Python 3 PEP8
improvements
2015-08-08
Released 2.3
- Fixes
ForceReply
class - Remove
logging.basicConfig
from library
2015-07-25
Released 2.2
- Allows
debug=True
when initializingtelegram.Bot
2015-07-20
Released 2.1
- Fix
to_dict
forDocument
andVideo
2015-07-19
Released 2.0
- Fixes bugs
- Improves
__str__
overto_json()
- Creates abstract class
TelegramObject
2015-07-15
Released 1.9
- Python 3 officially supported
PEP8
improvements
2015-07-12
Released 1.8
- Fixes crash when replying an unicode text message (special thanks to JRoot3D)
2015-07-11
Released 1.7
- Fixes crash when
username
is not defined onchat
(special thanks to JRoot3D)
2015-07-10
Released 1.6
- Improvements for GAE support
2015-07-10
Released 1.5
- Fixes randomly unicode issues when using
InputFile
2015-07-10
Released 1.4
requests
lib is no longer required- Google App Engine (GAE) is supported
2015-07-10
Released 1.3
- Added support to
setWebhook
(special thanks to macrojames)
2015-07-09
Released 1.2
CustomKeyboard
classes now available- Emojis available
PEP8
improvements
2015-07-08
Released 1.1
- PyPi package now available
2015-07-08
Released 1.0
- Initial checkin of python-telegram-bot